Month names can't be localized properly in admin Javascript

[gunchleoc]

While localizing ​https://www.transifex.com/django/django/contrib-admin-js/, I ran into the following string in contrib/admin/static/admin/js/calendar.js:11:

January February March April May June July August September October November December

Which I have now to translate as:

Faoilleach Gearran Màirt Giblean Cèitean Ògmhios Iuchar Lùnastal Sultain Dàmhair Samhain Dùbhlachd

However, the natural translation for

January

is

Am Faoilleach

and similarly for all the month names.

The point here is that the code has no way of knowing which whitespaces to choose as segmentation tokens.

So, I recommend translating these as separate entries, just like in the Python part of the code. The "S M T W T F S" string should then also be split for consistency.

[Benjamin Phillips]

Would simply switching the javascript to split on commas or another character be sufficient?

[gunchleoc]

Yes, that would work for me. Maybe we should use / or | as a separator? It somehow feels safer than a comma.

[Benjamin Phillips]

PR posted with this fix (PR 5739 ​https://github.com/django/django/pull/5739)

[Tim Graham <timograham@…>]

In 7f663aec:

Fixed #25820 -- Allowed whitespace in admin's calendar.js month/weekday names.

This is useful for certain language translations.